Welcome to fastText Quick Start Guide. In this first chapter, you will find out how to install fastText and create a stable environment in which to learn how to use fastText applications as part of your Natural Language Processing applications.
fastText is a library that helps you to generate efficient word representations and gives you support for text classification out of the box. In this book, we will take a look at a specific use case, namely machine translation, and use fastText for that. We have chosen machine translation because fastText claims that it is superior in terms of yet unknown words, and can handle different languages for which sufficiently large data sources and corpora may not be available. In different chapters, we will see how fastText fares in such cases. General techniques will also be discussed so that you will be able to extend those...